Name of Vessel:

Tryall

Master of Vessel:

Rig of Vessel:

Sloop

Date of Capture:

25 July 1777

Place of Capture:

Captor:

HM Frigate Glasgow

Home Port:

Charleston, South Carolina

From What Port:

Cape François, Saint-Domingue, French West Indies

To What Port:

Charleston, South Carolina

Cargo:

Molasses

Tonnage:

Battery:

Crew:

Owners:

Prize master:

Officer

Prize crew:

5 [total]

Ordered Into:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Into What Port:

Jamaica, British West Indies

Date Arrived:

Date Tried:

Date Sold:

Action:

No

Recaptured:

No

Comments: Sloop Tryall was owned in South Carolina, probably in Charleston. She was near the Caicos Islands on 24 July 1777, bound to Charleston from Cape François, Saint-Domingue, French West Indies with a cargo of molasses. Sailing in company with her was the sloop Rover with a cargo of tobacco and rice, bound from Cap François to Casco Bay, Massachusetts [Maine]. About 1500 HM Frigate Glasgow (Captain Thomas Pasley) sighted the two sail to the southwest and began chasing. At 1600 Glasgow fired one shot and brought the Rover to surrender. Glasgow resumed chasing the other sail. At 1900 she fired two shots at the Tryall, which were totally ignored. Darkness came and Pasley lost sight of his quarry at 2000. Assuming she would make for the west end of Mayaguana Island in the Bahamas Islands, Glasgow sailed for there. At daylight on 25 July a sloop was seen in the southeast quarter, to windward, which was the Tryall. The chase resumed and lasted all day. At 1500 Glasgow fired twenty-two guns at the Tryall, which finally surrendered. An officer and four men took charge of her. She was sent into Jamaica, British West Indies, where she was tried and condemned.

[NDAR, IX, 340 and note; XI, 448-453 and 454n33]